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Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is a very contentious issue. Like everybody else, I would love to have free water and for everyone to have free water. However, it appears that this motion is designed to give one section of the people free water. What concessions will be given to people in rural Ireland who have their own water pumps and septic tanks and to farmers and business people who have been paying for water...

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to raise a number of points about safety on our roads. I hope some of the things I will mention will be considered in the Road Traffic Bill we are discussing. Safety on our roads has been compromised by a number of things, including the lack of proper speed limits. I highlight the example of the N22 going into Killarney. For several years, we have...

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry, a Cheann Comhairle, we are not members of the Rural Alliance but of the Rural Independent Group.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 33 - Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (28 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have a question about the Leader funding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 33 - Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (28 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: There are a number of things to welcome. The €10 million for the village renewal is very welcome, and even though it is only a small amount, it is a step in the right direction. I believe the local authorities are to submit their applications to the Department for approval by Friday. I ask that the Minister does not delay long in turning it around. I understand that the work must...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 33 - Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (28 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister mentioned the issue of mobile phones. It is obvious that the quality of the reception coverage has been deteriorating in recent times. I believe, as do many others, that the reason for that is that the larger phones are taking more out of the system. I am not doing that with my phone as I have one of the older ones. The providers need to be tackled about this. In areas where...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (28 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: With regard to the programme for Government and the upcoming budget, I ask the Taoiseach and the Government not to raise the excise duty and VAT on diesel-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (28 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Working people and transport services cannot take any more and if the Government parties do it, it will hurt every man and woman in the country. I ask them not to do so.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: According to the programme for Government and the Department of Health, the provision of funding for home help is to assist elderly people to stay in their homes for as long as possible. The Minister for Health is not here but I need an answer from him in relation to €40 million that he made available for health services in June. Kerry was to receive €900,000 of this for the...

Order of Business (27 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach was not looking too bad himself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Rural Development and Infrastructure: Belturbet, Connemara and Kells Municipal Districts (20 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome all the delegates, from Cavan, Connemara and Meath, and thank them for their very well-presented case on the obstacles we are encountering in building roads and trying to survive in our communities. We have many of the same issues in Kerry and are still dealing with them. I will highlight two. One is the Macroom bypass, which is vital to the county and to attract investment to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Rural Development and Infrastructure: Belturbet, Connemara and Kells Municipal Districts (20 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is the only time we bear any grudge against Dublin people. We wish them all the very best. In turn, we are entitled to survive in our communities. Would it help if there were one national design and set of regulations to deal with all the species of nature and nature conservation? It is recognised that the road is needed. It is a matter of people before nature, including insects and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Rural Development and Infrastructure: Belturbet, Connemara and Kells Municipal Districts (20 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: We cannot build houses because the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government has four stages in terms of getting approval, and one must climb that ladder. It will not agree to anything sent to it during those stages. It can take months or a year. There should be one design for a four, three, two or one bedroom, and if the money is available, give it to us and let us...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (16 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 281. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress being made in determining the causes of the increase in insurance costs in 2016, as most premiums have increased significantly (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25429/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (16 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 1212. To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase home help hours in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25275/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (21 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 25. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will change the situation where grandparents are disallowed from caring for their grandchildren if they are 40 years older than the grandchildren given that this does not make sense as there are many parents who are over 40 years or more older than their children. [18702/16]

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am very disappointed that the Taoiseach has been blaming the local authorities for the housing crisis. It is not acceptable. I deplore the fact he said that the local authorities had lost their ability to build houses. They could not build houses when they were not able to access money. The tenant purchase scheme, which was a great scheme that allowed tenants to purchase their houses,...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: In regard to the new housing strategy, I am disappointed with the Taoiseach for blaming the local authorities and saying they lost their way in terms of house building. That is incorrect. The former Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government also blamed the local authorities in that regard, but the local authorities were not given the money to build houses.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach has again said that money is being provided. Are the blockages in the Department that prevented local authorities from accessing funding going to be removed?

Questions on Proposed Legislation (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: In 2013, the Government promised €1.2 million for Kerry County Council but the council could not access that funding. It also promised the council €62.5 million in 2015, which again it could not access-----